| Human activity accelerating the rapid desertification of the Mu Us Sandy Lands, North China | |
| Miao, Yunfa1; Jin, Heling1; Cui, Jianxin2 | |
| 刊名 | SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
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| 2016-03-10 | |
| 卷号 | 6页码:15 |
| ISSN号 | 2045-2322 |
| DOI | 10.1038/srep23003 |
| 通讯作者 | Miao, Yunfa(miaoyunfa@lzb.ac.cn) |
| 英文摘要 | Over the past several thousand years, arid and semiarid China has experienced a series of asynchronous desertification events in its semiarid sandy and desert regions, but the precise identification of the driving forces of such events has remained elusive. In this paper we identify two rapid desertification events (RDEs) at similar to 4.6 +/- 0.2 ka BP and similar to 3.3 +/- 0.2 ka BP from the JJ Profile, located in the eastern Mu Us Sandy Lands. These RDEs appear to have occurred immediately following periods marked by persistently frequent and intense fires. We argue that such fire patterns, directly linked to an uncontrolled human use of vegetation as fuel, played a key role in accelerating RDEs by ensuring that the land surface was degraded beyond the threshold required for rapid desertification. This would suggest that the future use of a massive and sustained ecological program of vegetation rehabilitation should reduce the risk of destructive fire. |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| WOS关键词 | MAXILLARY PLATE ; BURMESE AMBER ; MORPHOLOGY ; HEMIPTERA ; EVOLUTION ; INSECTS ; AUCHENORRHYNCHA ; PARANEOPTERA ; PSOCOPTERA ; PSOCODEA |
| WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
| WOS类目 | Multidisciplinary Sciences |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 出版者 | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000371676000001 |
| 内容类型 | 期刊论文 |
| URI标识 | http://www.corc.org.cn/handle/1471x/2557372 |
| 专题 | 寒区旱区环境与工程研究所 |
| 通讯作者 | Miao, Yunfa |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Cold & Arid Reg Environm & Engn Inst, Key Lab Desert & Desertificat, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China 2.Shaanxi Normal Univ, Northwest Inst Hist Environm & Socioecon Dev, Xian 710062, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Miao, Yunfa,Jin, Heling,Cui, Jianxin. Human activity accelerating the rapid desertification of the Mu Us Sandy Lands, North China[J]. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,2016,6:15. |
| APA | Miao, Yunfa,Jin, Heling,&Cui, Jianxin.(2016).Human activity accelerating the rapid desertification of the Mu Us Sandy Lands, North China.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,6,15. |
| MLA | Miao, Yunfa,et al."Human activity accelerating the rapid desertification of the Mu Us Sandy Lands, North China".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 6(2016):15. |
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